The cap product equality conjecture for right-angled Artin groups

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Let AΓA_\Gamma be a right-angled Artin group associated to a finite simple graph Γ\Gamma. For a second homology class α∈H2(AΓ)\alpha\in H_2(A_\Gamma), let MαM_\alpha denote the associated skew-symmetric bilinear form, and let gen⁡(α)\operatorname{gen}(\alpha) be the minimal genus of a surface representing α\alpha. The cap product inequality is the inequality relating gen⁡(α)\operatorname{gen}(\alpha) to the cap bound 12rank⁡(Mα)\frac{1}{2}\operatorname{rank}(M_\alpha). Cap product equality conjecture. The cap product inequality is an equality for any right-angled Artin group. This would answer the paper's question about whether the cap bound determines the minimal genus in full generality; the preceding results establish equality in several classes of examples, but the general case remains open.

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Rachael Boyd, Thorben Kastenholz and Jean Pierre Mutanguha, “The minimal genus problem for right angled Artin groups”, arXiv:2108.02914 (2023).

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